Merry Christmas!

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About rebelhand

A Rebel Hand is:
about Nicholas Delaney, Irish rebel of 1798, transported as a convict to New South Wales, roadbuilder, innkeeper and farmer. My great-great-great grandfather.
Other ancestors transported to Australia, like Sarah Marshall, John Simpson and James Thomas Richards, pop up as well.
This blog's also about the historical background to their lives, in England, Ireland, and Australia.
My respectable Welsh ancestors sometimes get a look in.

Thankyou Frances and boomeranging those Christmas wishes right back to you and sending extra special virtual hugs for this first Christmas without your beloved mum. Both my parents died in the same year, and that first Christmas as an “orphan” was very challenging. May your heart be lifted and you feel your mother’s love cascading over you.
Those Christmas decorations are so beautiful, especially the purple white and green ones. Maybe my eye is drawn to these becaused they’re the “women’s colours”… initially worn by the suffragettes, I believe.
Cheerio for now, Catherine.

I’m way behind with reading blogs, Frances, so sorry I haven’t seen this before. My first without my Mum was heartbreaking… i did my best to ” keep it together” for my children and the rest of the family, but it was my children who came to me and said that it was ok to be both sad and happy, and it is.. Sad for what we’ve lost, but happy for what we’ve had…Since then, each Christmas Eve, and sometimes on special anniversaries, I light a blue candle in memory of those who have passed.

The decorations are beautiful and great to have as a reminder of years gone by.

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Header image based on View of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point by Joseph Lycett. By State Library of New South Wales (cat a5491074), CC BY-SA
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